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Meet the Author Philip La Croix , Book writing Experince

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3 years ago

June 5, 2023

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Meet the Author Philip La Croix , Book writing Experince

Philip La Croix, brings his captivating storytelling skills to the literary world with the release of his highly anticipated debut novel, “The Best Laid Traps.” With a background in theatre arts and a successful career as a knight for Medieval Times, La Croix’s transition into writing showcases his exceptional talent for crafting compelling narratives. Here is an interview session with author

Tell us about yourself. ?

I’m Philip La Croixa newly published author, but I have been a performer all my life. I graduated from California State University Fullerton with my bachelors in the Theatre Arts and have spent the last 15 years performing as a Knight for Medieval Times. My job as a knight is too much fun to give up entirely, but I’m trying to shift my career focus over to writing because I have many thrilling stories to share with the world!

How did you discover writer in you ?

Growing up, I actually didn’t have much interest in books, but after I graduated from college (when I was no longer required to read) I found the joys of staring at paper and hallucinating for hours on end. One night, I had an incredibly vivid dream and felt a need to get it down on paper. It was then that I realized that writing stories is the ultimate acting experience because you have to act and think as every character you create, as well as keeping your audience captivated by telling the story of what those characters are going through.

Talking about your new book ? What is it all about ?

Published Author Philip La Croix The Best LAid Traps

“The Best Laid Traps” Is the story about a young man, Edward Dalton, who’s been bullied all his life and gets run off the road and left for dead in the Appalachian wilderness. He spends 6 years battling starvation, local wildlife, and his own poisoned mind to survive. After he makes a valuable discovery in his wooded sanctuary, he decides to leave the forest and go back to civilization to carry out his wildest dreams of revenge on the three people who had left him to die. He soon finds that fate has been kind to his bullies while he was away and Edward plans and waits for 10 years until he can orchestrate the perfect moment to brutally take them down and show to the world just how horrible they really are.

What is your writing process for finding ideas and developing characters ?

As far as getting the initial Idea goes, random thoughts pop into my head and either I have gotten an idea for a new story, or another part of a current story has just been revealed. When these thoughts occur, it’s kind of like being hypnotized because all of the sudden I’ll come out of these musings and have huge chunks of time missing. They say that writing is less of an act of creating everything in your stories, but rather watching what happens in your head and writing the events down exactly as you saw them. I certainly agree! Although you have to create every little detail in the beginning, it doesn’t take long before the characters start taking on a life of their own and you move from driver to passenger in the speeding bullet train that is storytelling.

How do you cope with writing block ?

It’s very easy to get stuck and say to yourself, “I’ll just take today off and come back to it tomorrow.” But what happens when the same thing happens the next day? If you don’t push past the block, the proverbial “tomorrow” never comes and your wonderful story becomes dead in the water. If you know the general direction of where your story is headed, push past the part where you’re stuck and get back on track; even if it’s the flimsiest get-out-of-jail free fix you can think of. It’s a lot better to go back and fix that area later after you have a complete story than to sit there waiting for your own deus ex machina.

Do you fancy to write a certain type of character or book ?

As I mentioned before. You go into a story with a certain idea of how you want your characters. You guide them in the beginning but sometimes they end up being completely different than what you thought at first. For example, in the story I’m currently weighting, there’s a funny little creature that kept nagging at the back of my mind. I tried to leave him out of the story entirely because I thought he was too comical to fit in the story I’m trying to tell, but he was insistent. I have no idea how long he’ll be in the story, but I have a feeling he’s going to have a pivotal role at a crucial moment. The overall story for the book just comes to me and I have to pursue it. It doesn’t matter what type of genre or length, the story needs to be told and the writer must follow.

What gener of books you want to write in future ?

Well, the first book I published is an action adventure. The one I’m working on is a dark-fantasy. I have plans for sci-fi, dramas, etc. I’m really all over the board. I even wrote a full length fan-fiction novel surrounding characters from “The Hunger Games” universe. I really hope that one day I can get a copy in front of Suzanne Collins and if not get her endorsement, then to at least have her permission to publish it.

Any book writing in progress ?

My current novel centers around the characters from L. Frank Baum’s original novel of “The Wizard of Oz.” It takes place many years after the story, and paints a different picture of what happened at the end of L. Frank Baum’s version. Instead of sending her home, Glinda traps Dorothy to keep her in stasis while she deals with a mysterious gloom or poisoning of the land of Oz, stemming from the great wizard himself. Glinda disappears and Dorothy finally breaks out and has to take up Glinda’s mantle to try and put everything back to rights. It’s kind of like “Wizard of Oz” meets “Shutter Island” and has been very exciting to write because it has so many huge twists and turns and an ending that I think will blow your mind, at least it did for me.

How did you hear about CarryOnHarry ? Any message for Studio ?

My marketing campaign manager Josh Mitchell was kind enough to bring you guys to my attention and am very grateful he did so. Thank you all for your hard work and help for all the writers out there.

Website Link

https://www.philiplacroix.com

Facebook Handle

https://www.facebook.com/Philip.Lacroix06

Amazon Link

https://a.co/d/5EyTaMi

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Revisiting Octavia Butler’s “Wild Seed,” the 1980 novel that opens her Patternist series

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Revisiting Octavia Butler’s “Wild Seed,” the 1980 novel that opens her Patternist series

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Octavia E. Butler’s "Wild Seed," released in 1980, remains one of the author’s most widely read novels decades after its release. It opens Butler’s five-book Patternist cycle, a five-book speculative fiction cycle, and continues to draw new readers and critical attention.

Butler, who died in 2006, is widely regarded as one of the first Black women to gain major recognition in American science fiction, a genre that offered her few peers when she began publishing in the 1970s. Her work is frequently cited within Afrofuturism, the broader cultural movement that uses speculative fiction, technology, and alternate histories to explore the experiences of the African diaspora and to imagine Black futures beyond the constraints of the present.

"Wild Seed" is addresses themes of gender, healing roles, and the experiences of Black women, reflecting the novel’s focus on characters navigating power, transformation, and survival across generations. Readers and reviewers have consistently described it as a character-driven work rather than a plot-heavy one, with its two central figures carrying the novel through sustained psychological and emotional depth. The book is the first in the five-volume Patternist series and has drawn an active readership on platforms like Goodreads, where it holds a strong average rating from tens of thousands of readers.

The novel has also found renewed life in reading groups and community discussions in recent years, often paired with other Afrofuturist or speculative work, a sign of Butler’s lasting pull on readers well outside the genre’s traditional audience.

Studio CarryOnHarry sees "Wild Seed" as a useful entry point for readers curious about Butler’s influence on contemporary speculative fiction, and worth a look for anyone building out an Afrofuturism reading list.

About the Author: An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.

[Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]:
Octavia E Butler (1947–2006)

> I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler’s Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I’d never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-Ameri

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How The Odyssey Pushed Nolan Into Cinema’s Billion-Dollar Elite

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How The Odyssey Pushed Nolan Into Cinema’s Billion-Dollar Elite

Studio CarryOnHarry Entertainment Desk | 13 October 2026

The Odyssey Rewrites Box Office History

Christopher Nolan has officially cemented his place among the most commercially powerful filmmakers in cinema history. His latest epic, The Odyssey, has stormed past $1.78 billion at the worldwide box office, making it not only the biggest film of his career but also the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever released globally.

The achievement has propelled Nolan past the $8 billion milestone in cumulative career earnings at the worldwide box office — a staggering figure that places him third on the all-time list of highest-grossing directors, displacing the Russo Brothers from that coveted position.

What Makes The Odyssey a Record-Breaker?

Adapted from Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, The Odyssey marks Nolan’s first venture into mythological storytelling — and the gamble has paid off spectacularly. The film boasts one of Hollywood’s most impressive ensemble casts, led by Matt Damon, with Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, Samantha Morton, and Charlize Theron rounding out the lineup.

Box Office Breakdown

Opening Weekend (North America): $123.5 million
North American Total: $623.1 million
International Gross: $1.157 billion
Worldwide Total (to date): $1.78 billion
Projected Final Worldwide: ~$1.9 billion

Nolan Pushes Russo Brothers Out of the Top 3

Prior to The Odyssey‘s release, Nolan’s global career total sat just below the $8 billion threshold. The film’s extraordinary run has now vaulted him ahead of the Russo Brothers — best known for the Marvel juggernaut films Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame — in the all-time director rankings.

For context, Nolan’s previous biggest hit was The Dark Knight Rises, which earned over $1 billion globally. The Odyssey has shattered that benchmark decisively, reportedly tracking toward a $1.9 billion final tally.

Why This Matters for Global Cinema Fans

This milestone is a defining moment for original, auteur-driven blockbuster filmmaking. For fans tracking Bollywood’s top stories and global cinema alike, Nolan’s ascent signals that bold, large-scale storytelling continues to draw audiences worldwide.

For deeper context on how Hollywood’s biggest milestones intersect with the global film landscape, entertainment industry coverage continues to track every record-breaking development in real time.

With The Odyssey still in theatres and its final numbers yet to be tallied, Nolan’s position in cinema history looks more secure than ever.

– Entertainment Desk, Studio Carry On Harry

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